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In another SWG related thread I saw a note indicating a particular brand of SWG should be run at the lower range of the recommended salt level... Is there a reference guide here somewhere that goes into recommendations for various SWGs? For my case specifically, what is the optimal salt level...

Greetings all! Our pool is scheduled for opening on 5/2 and I'm looking for advice on what I should and should not do to treat the water between now and then. At closing we drained to below the inflows and with rain and snow melt (mostly rain) this winter I have had to drain 2x to keep the...

What tricks do you folks use when you need to clean the pump strainer basket? I just checked mine and it was riddled with pine needles throughout. By the time I had it clean enough to put back in place much of the water had drained from the filter and it took a repeated , extended effort to...

This is the first year opening our pool so we had a pool company do the honors...I hope to take on that responsibility going forward (wife permitting). Other than high TA we're off to a good start at getting the water chemistry balance where it should be. My question is if it is safe for me to...

This will be the first year we open our pool, and the wife insists on having that done by a pool company. I'm hoping that will change, going forward but it was her money that paid for the pool, so... We have a safety cover that will come off for the season on Friday when the pool is opened. I...

We had 2 120 gallon propane tanks installed for our (new this year) pool and a backup generator. How fast does the heater (Pentair Mastertemp 400) burn through that? We didn't use the heater all that much this past season and when we tried to run it for one last swim the heater would turn on...

This is my first season with a new gunite pool. We're still waiting on the new/custom Loop Lock cover which is to be installed Nov 7. With formal closing by a local pool company the following day. How do people deal with Automation for the off season, specifically for a Screenlogic user? Do...

I had a working schedule with 2 overlapping routines until a few days ago when I mucked with the circuits and the Intelliflo setup in an attempt to change (make slower) one of the 2 active pump speeds scheduled. Now only one of them is working as scheduled...the one I did not touch. What is the...

Despite rinsing and wiping my "Chlorine Only" TF Graduated Cylinder is stained. Does this affect the water/reagent reaction during testing? The same stains on my Smart Stir pill have also left some staining on the bottom of the cylinder I use for my other tests. Is this compromising my testing?

Could someone please check my math/assumptions estimating the daily addition of FC in ppm based on the % setting on my IC40 SWG ? It is a new pool (plaster) running since May and I haven't yet worked out the optimal SWG setting where I can (mostly) just set it and forget it. We have a heat wave...

My CH level has held steady all season but now the # is going up and I'm not sure why. The only change is I'm switching over to a new batch of reagents. Could that explain a swing of + 30 ppm? I've added no CH+ recently nor have I had to top off with fill water.

I see a number of posts here...many of them old...about what to use and what not to use as a silicone based O-ring lubricant for filter O-rings. is there a consensus as to what is the best quality and/or best value? It looks like there are a variety of different "Super Lube" variants, some of...

Can I do STRIKETHROUGH using this forum's editor? Found it!

Do folks with an SWG try to keep a small supply of liquid Chlorine on hand for emergencies & supplement the SWG before the CL goes bad or do you only buy it as needed given its limited shelf life? We opened our new plaster/SWG pool in early May using liquid chlorine to make the pool swimmable...

Sorry for the Pic quality... Now that our pool is done getting the PB to answer questions directly has been like pulling teeth. Our pool returns appear to be just disc's with a hole...like a big plastic washer affixed to the plumbing behind it. Is this a style of return hardware or is this...

How do folks here record use of their pool cleaners in Pool Math maintenance logs? Do you treat a pressure cleaner as brushing? vacuuming? I brush the sidewalls of my pool regularly (2x/wk)...especially at the waterline...and run the Polaris 2+ hours almost every time we pull off the solar cover...

This is our first season managing a new plaster SWG pool opened in early May. I was slow to get CYA close to TFP acceptable target levels but now it's up to 60. We're still "learning the pool" and have been successful at keeping FC between 4.0 an 8.0 by adjusting the SWG % with the pump running...

Rather than hijack the "SWG settings and regulating with varying pump speeds" thread I'll post my questions here.... From that thread: @Jimrahbe - A side note on that thread might be helpful to folks like me who want to better understand SWG output and the recommended/ideal targets for both...

I've heard it said here that a pool will tend to "find its levels." How true is that and if so, how long should we expect before we can say that our pool has found those preferred levels? In our case we have a new Gunite/Plaster SWG pool first filled in early May with the SWG turned on in late...

This post is basically 2 separate but related questions regarding my Polaris 280 and how it is connected to the pumps... My Polaris 280 has seen its leader hose pop off 3x recently. The first time I totally botched reconnecting it, not noticing that the leader hose and two nuts were still...

Maybe a dumb question, but in reading the K-1766 salt test do you stop counting at the first flash of pink/salmon even if it goes back to yellow or do you stop at a solid salmon color? I knew my salt was high from the IC40 reading and the fact that I can taste it quite strongly, but my readings...

Greetings all. We have a new build and Pentair came out yesterday to do the basic programming which was pretty much the last step in the installation. Surprise surprise, we can no longer control the pump at its controls (learned this is normal) and double surprise we learned that The Android...

OK...new SWG/Plaster pool owner here. Our build is 99% done and Pentair came out yesterday to get the heater running (yay!) and to program the EasyTouch/ScreenLogic panel (separate rant). Previously the IC40 was flashing "High Salt" and now via ScreenLogic the system is reporting a salt level of...

I already have the TF100 Test Kit. If I become a Silver or Bronze supporter can the discount on the kit be applied to refills?

Pool equipment details are in my signature... This is our first SWG pool so this is new to me. This morning while adding dry acid to bring down the PH a bit I was adjusting the pump speed and noticed that the SWG Flow LED goes to red (low/no flow) if I set the pump below 1650 RPMs. Is that to...

2 years ago I included test kit pictures in a post regarding test kit comparisons. More recently I added an "in progress" picture to my "new build" post. Is there a way to organize these pictures into "Albums" after the fact or can you only add pictures to an Album by upload? I tried to add the...

I tend to access TFP via my laptop and had drafted a recent post where I wanted to add/link my Pool Math recent logs, but since that is on my phone I saved my post to draft first. When I switched over to the Pool Math app and then to the TFP Forums (on mobile) I could not find a way to pull up...

We have a new 20,000 gallon SWG Gunite Pool filled on 5/6 and the pump running continuously since then, mostly at low speed (1500-1700 rpm) when not in use or while cleaning. 18 bags (@ 40 lbs each) of salt was added on 5/27 which works out to about 3400 ppm. The Intellichlor IC40 label says the...

We have a new pool that is not yet "officially" done as the installers need to come back and add salt and program the control panel. We have been told that it is still swimmable while the plaster finishes its curing process so In the meantime we have been maintaining Chlorine manually. That has...

I just downloaded Pool Math (Android and have a question regarding configuring my pool. The pool is not yet fully open but it is swimmable. The plaster is still curing so the heater and SWG are not yet enabled necessitating that we manually chlorinate the pool with bleach in the interim. Will...